Last Updated on March 11, 2026
I still remember my very first visit to Frida’s Casa Azul, back in 2010. We took the metro down to Coyoacan, walked over to Calle Londres and asked for two tickets at the entrance. We each handed over 100 pesos, and that was it. When I returned to Coyoacan in 2016, it was still not a problem to get a ticket. It had gotten more expensive (246 Pesos), but neither was it impossible to get in without prior online booking, nor was it very busy.
Ten years later, things looked very different. I started hearing about Casa Azul completely selling out a few years ago, and when I decided to re-visit the Frida Kahlo museum on my most recent visit to Mexico City, my friend Rachel warned me: “Buy your ticket well in advance or you’ll be forced to book a tour to get into a museum.” Even with that advice, I wasn’t able to get a ticket through the official ticket website, which showed me that the next tickets were available about a month out. I was in disbelief. How had Casa Azul become so popular? I didn’t notice an increased interest in any other museums in Mexico City – be it Chapultapec Castle, Palacio de Bellas Artes, or the Diego Rivera Museum- everywhere I went, I was able to simply walk up to the ticket booth and buy a ticket on the spot. No prior reservation necessary. No time slots. No long waits, not even on free museum Sundays or the museums that are generally free to visit.
But here I was, trying to decide what to do. I had even booked my accommodation for a few nights in Coyoacan to spend more time in the place Frida called home. So I started researching what alternatives I had instead of visiting the Frida Kahlo Museum, or if I should join a tour of Coyoacan after all, to be able to visit Frida’s beloved Blue House.
If you’re in the same position and you weren’t quick enough to snag a ticket via the official Museo Frida Kahlo website, read on to find out what your alternatives are, or how to get into Casa Azul through third-party vendors.
Frida Kahlo Museum “Casa Azul” via third-party vendors
If your trip to Mexico City is still a few days out, you’ll probably be able to get a ticket via GetYourGuide, an official third-party vendor of the sought-after tickets. However, this obviously comes with a hefty price tag: Tickets for the Frida Kahlo Museum on GetYourGuide are more than twice as much as you’d pay on the official museum website. However, if this is your only chance to ever step foot inside Casa Azul, and you consider yourself a die-hard Frida fan, then this is probably what you’ll want to do, no matter the cost.
GetYourGuide currently charges US$37 for a ticket, or MXN656, which is more than double what you’d pay on the official Museo Frida Kahlo website: currently MXN320.
Frida Kahlo Museum with a guide (via third-party vendors)
GetYourGuide also offers combination tickets that include the admission to Casa Azul, and a guide. With this option, you get a 2-hour tour of the house during which you’ll learn a lot more about Frida, the Casa Azul itself, and her life there, than you would if you were to wander the grounds by yourself. At US$70, this option is not cheap, but there are usually tickets available with only a few days’ notice. Book the Frida Kahlo Museum Tour here.
Frida Kahlo Museum included in an organized tour
There are several tour operators in Mexico City that offer admission to the Casa Azul as part of their larger tour – often a tour specifically of Coyoacan, but there are also a number of tours that include several neighborhoods, including Coyoacan and Frida’s Blue House. The latter are in my opinion the tours that offer the most bang for your buck, but after researching all my options, I personally opted for a bike tour, hoping to get to see more of Coyoacan than the central parts I’d explored on my own on previous visits.
I am sharing all the tours that I shortlisted based on good reviews and interesting routes and topics:
Tours offered on Airbnb Experiences:
- Frida Kahlo Museum [Admission Included] and Xochimilco (7 hours, including Xochimilco, Coyoacán and the Frida Kahlo Museum. Pick-up/Drop-off included, US$118)
Frida Kahlo Museum and Xochimilco Express, breakfast included (4.5 hours, including breakfast at a local market, a 1-hr Xochimilco boat ride, and tickets to the Casa Azul, US$119)
- Coyoacan Bike Tour, including Churro, Tacos, and the Frida Kahlo Museum Ticket (4 hours, including Coyoacán’s parks, markets, murals, top landmarks, by bike. Including 2 food stops and the ticket to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul. US$96)
- Exclusive Frida Kahlo Museum Tour – small group guaranteed (2 hours, including stories about Coyoacan and a guided tour of the Casa Azul; US$96)
- Frida Kahlo Walk through Coyoacan, including Churros, the local market & Casa Azul Museum Ticket (4 hours, a walking tour through Coyoacan including a stop at the market, a churro, and the museum ticket. US$96 per person)
- Frida Kahlo Museum & Tacos: Coyoacán Walking Tour (3.5 hours walking tour of Coyoacan with a food stop at the local market and tickets to Casa Azul. US$103)
Top-rated tours offered on GetYourGuide:
Note that there are more than just these tours offered on GetYourGuide, that include tickets to the Frida Kahlo Museum, but I only selected those that had were rated highly. If you do book a tour via a third-party provider like GetYourGuide, always read a few of the most recent reviews before booking a tour.
- Xochimilco, Coyoacan with Frida Kahlo Museum & Lunch (10-hour tour; US$117 – be careful to select the correct option!)
- Xochimilco and Coyoacán Tour with Frida Kahlo Museum (10-hour tour; US$87 – be careful to select the correct option including Casa Azul tickets)
Your alternative in Coyoacan: Casa Kahlo
If you happen to find yourself already in Coyoacan, standing in front of the Frida Kahlo Museum without any chance to get inside, because you had no idea that you were supposed to buy your tickets to the Casa Azul months ago, you may want to check out Casa Kahlo instead.
Casa Kahlo is a new museum that opened recently (September 2025), only a few blocks from Frida’s Blue House. I have to admit that I was skeptical at first – was this just a money-grab, trying to make money off tourists who weren’t able to get into Casa Azul? But I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this museum was initiated by the Kahlo family, and that Casa Kahlo actually belongs to the Kahlo family. It was the house in which the sister Frida was closest to, Cristina, raised her two kids, and one of them, Cristina’s daughter Isolda, lived until her death in 2007. She was also the one who pushed for the house to be turned into a museum, focusing on aspects of Frida’s life that don’t get a lot of attention at the Blue House.
This house is painted bright red, so now Coyoacan has the Blue House and the Red House. The biggest difference is that this house doesn’t have any of Frida’s artworks, and it doesn’t have the beautiful courtyard that is a big part of the Casa Azul.
Casa Kahlo will introduce you to the entire Kahlo family, however, and you’ll get to see personal belongings of Frida that Casa Azul doesn’t have, including a number of letters and postcards she wrote to several family members and people close to her, especially her niece Isolda.
Frida’s father and her mother Matilde were the first ones in the Kahlo family to live in this house after the family bought it in 1930. Prior to moving into the Red House, Guillermo and Matilde lived at the Blue House, but after Frida married Diego Rivera, the newlyweds moved into the house and her parents transferred the house to her name as a wedding gift. Frida started spending a lot of time at this house after her sister Cristina moved in permanently with her kids in 1936 (after separating from the father of the children).
You’ll also get to see some of her father’s works – Guillermo Kahlo was a renowned photographer and documented many of Mexico City’s grand buildings for the government, and also documented his family on film. Because Frida’s parents lived here, there is a replica of Guillermo’s darkroom, and there is a room dedicated to of the cameras he used back in the door, so if you’re a photography nerd, you’ll love this part of the house.
Similar to Casa Azul, Casa Kahlo also kept several rooms the way they looked back when the Kahlo family lived here, such as the kitchen, Cristina’s bedroom, and the dining room. The kitchen even has some of the original recipe books that the family kept for many decades, and some of the original silverware and dishes they used. Just like at the Casa Azul, you’ll get to see some of Frida’s wardrobe here, plus jewelry she used to wear.
Then there’s the secret basement, which is entirely dedicated to letters Frida wrote – if you understand Spanish, you’ll be spending a while here reading all the details of her life she shared with those close to her. The fact that so many of her letters and postcards were kept by the family is truly amazing – they offer such a unique way of getting to know her most private thoughts and her personality shines through so much in the way she talks to her friends and family members on paper.
There are a couple of digital features, as well – but I don’t want to spoil too much. If you’re on the fence about visiting – let me assure you that every Frida fan will leave Casa Kahlo having learned something new about her. The last room is dedicated to Cristina’s social project “La Ayuda”, which I didn’t know anything about, as well as Frida’s art students, some of which became famous Mexican painters in their own right.
So if you’re already in Coyoacan, Casa Kahlo is well worth a visit – just be aware that it’s closed on Tuesdays.
You can buy tickets online here. Price: MXN270 (currently US$15).
Address: Aguayo 54, Del Carmen, Coyoacán
Opening times: Wednesdays – Mondays from 9am – 7pm.
Other places of interest in Coyoacan
Frida fans will appreciate a few other places in Coyoacan that celebrate her, such as Parque Frida Kahlo, a small park where you can see two sculptures of her: one sitting on top of a pyramid similar to the one in the courtyard of Casa Azul, and another one of her next to her husband Diego Rivera.
I also found a couple of large murals honoring Frida, one in one of the main squares, Jardin Centenario. The mural is on the side of the building that houses the restaurant Entrevero.
The other one is on Calle Xicotencatl, on the north side of Coyoacan’s market (close to the corner of Calle Abasolo).
The third mural I spotted, which is paying homage to Frida’s famous 1943 self-portrait “Diego in My Thoughts“, can be found inside the courtyard of the Mercado Artesanal Mexicano, off Plaza Jardin Hidalgo.
There may be more murals that I didn’t come across – but wandering the streets of Coyoacan, where Frida spent most of her life, is a great way to spend a day in Mexico City. It’s one of my favorite boroughs in CDMX, and I can see why she cherished the place she called home so much. It still feels a lot more like the village it once was, and is a nice change from the busier parts of the capital.
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo
Not far from Coyoacan, in a neighborhood called San Angel, are Frida and Diego’s artists studios. I love this neighborhood just as much as I love Coyoacan, and the studios are well worth a visit if you’d like to get a deeper insight into the couple’s lives, artistic visions, and to see the environment they were working in. The structure in itself is interesting to see, especially if you are interested in architecture. It was designed by architect Juan O’Gorman, who was friends with the famous artist couple, and who created an architecturally novel and ultra-modern for its time (Gorman was commissioned to design the twin houses in 1929).
There are actually two buildings – twin buildings, connected by a small foot bridge on the roof. The whole complex was innovative in terms of layout, colors, and functionality, and it’s fascinating to see how Diego and Frida filled the space. They moved into this house in 1934, and while Frida moved into the Blue House in nearby Coyoacan after they divorced, Diego stayed in his house in San Angel until he died in 1957.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much to see in Frida’s house, since most of her things are being displayed at Casa Azul, but there’s still some of her furniture here, and you’ll get to see a lot of her husband’s personal belongings, his bedroom, living space, office and part of his art collection – including some of the Pre-Columbian artifacts, most of which can be seen at Museo Anahuacalli.
This small museum, also in Coyoacan, is included in the ticket for Casa Azul, but unfortunately not in walking distance. If this kind of pre-hispanic art, and sculptures in particular, is of interest to you, you shouldn’t miss Museo Anahuacalli. Rivera collected over 2,000 pre-hispanic artifacts, from various archaeological sites across Mexico, and he and Frida dreamed up this museum together.
The artifacts, along with some early sketches of Diego Rivera’s murals, are housed in a remarkable custom-designed building that was modeled after Aztec and Mayan temples. Museo Anahuacalli is 20 – 25 minutes by taxi from Frida’s Casa Azul, and it’s open Tuesday – Sunday from 11am to 5.30pm.
Museo Casa Estudio is small and you probably won’t spend more than an hour there, but it is possible to take a guided tour, which will provide a lot of additional commentary and put things into context for you.
While you’re in San Angel, make sure to take a stroll around this picturesque neighborhood – one of my favorites in Mexico City. If you happen to visit on a Saturday, don’t miss the weekly art fair in and around Plaza San Jacinto.
Address: Diego Rivera s/n, San Ángel Inn, Álvaro Obregón, San Angel
Opening times: Tuesdays – Sundays from 10am – 5.30pm (closed on Mondays!)
Tickets are only MXN50 (currently less than US$3!), and there’s no need to buy tickets in advance. On Sundays, admission is free.
Other places in Mexico City that have Frida Kahlo art
Museo Dolores Olmedo
The Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum has one of the biggest collections of artwork of both Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, as well as artist Angelina Beloff (who was Rivera’s first wife). Dolores Olmedo was a generous patron to Frida and Diego, and became one of their closest friends. Olmedo was a successful businesswoman who bought a big 16th-century estate in Xochimilco on the southern edge of Mexico City in 1962, and made it her life goal to assemble a sizable art collection.
And she sure succeeded: her collection of pre-Hispanic, folk, colonial, modern and contemporary art became huge over the course of her life. In 1994, she turned her estate into a museum. The estate is well worth a visit if you’re a Frida Kahlo fan – there are 25 of her paintings on display here. If you love Diego Rivera’s art, you’ll be even more inclined to head to Xochimilco: 137 of his paintings are at the museum. Frida and Diego’s art is only a small part of the entire collection, so if you visit Dolores Olmedo Museum, put aside a few hours for your visit.
In addition to the art, I also enjoyed her hacienda and the beautiful grounds, with lush gardens, xoloitzcuintles (Mexican hairless dogs) and peacocks roaming around.
In 2021, the museum closed for renovations, which would last several years, and it will finally reopen in 2026. Tickets can be reserved starting 31 March 2026.
Address: Dolores Olmedo Museum, Av Mexico 5843, La Noria, Xochimilco
Opening Times: tba.
Can you tell which ones are real?
Look out for temporary exhibits in Mexico City
Mexico loves celebrating its most famous female artist in any way possible – you’ll see her face on posters, postcards, tote bags and in all sorts of places around Mexico City (and beyond). In 2010, she even appeared on the 500 Pesos bill (which has been replaced by a different bill, but if you’re lucky, you still sometimes come across them!). There are often temporary exhibits honoring Frida and her art – in 2025, for example, there was the immersive “Diego y Frida. Un Universo” experience.
Museo de Arte Moderno – 2026 Exhibit
In 2026, 10 of Frida Kahlo’s paintings made an appearance in the special exhibition “Relatos modernos. Obras emblemáticas de la Colección Gelman-Santander” during which the Modern Art Museum got to show a part of the extensive contemporary art collection of Natasha Zahalka y Jacques Gelman. The Gelman’s art collection is known to be one of the most significant collections of the 20th century, and they even commissioned both Frida and Diego (as well as several other well-known Mexican artists) to paint a portrait of Natasha. All of these, plus a number of Frida’s paintings and some of her husband’s, were part of this impressive exhibit.
If you happen to find yourself in Mexico City before the exhibition ends on 17th May 2026, definitely do not skip it.
In additions to this temporary exhibit: one of Frida Kahlo’s most famous paintings, Las Dos Fridas, ispart of the permanent collection in the Museum of Modern Art.
Opening hours: Tuesdays – Sundays from 10:15am – 5:45pm.
Address: Museo de Arte Moderno, Av. P.º de la Reforma s/n, inside Chapultepec Park. The museum is close to the park entrance at Paseo de la Reforma, on the eastern tip of the park.
Admission: MXN95 (a bit over US$5). Tickets can be bought right at the museum, no need to buy them in advance.
Artwork in Mexico City in which Frida Kahlo is featured
If you also enjoy the art of Frida’s husband Diego Rivera, who was one of Mexico’s most famous muralists, you’ll enjoy finding in her in several of his pieces around Mexico City.
Museo Mural Diego Rivera – This small museum just west of the Alameda Central has only one mural, but it’s one of Rivera’s most famous ones: Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central (“Dream of a Sunday Afternoon at Alameda Central Park”) – a giant mural that he created for a wall inside the Hotel Del Prado, which unfortunately got destroyed during the big 1985 earthquake. The mural could be saved, and this museum would be a quick and cheap visit (MXN50).
Museum Vivo del Muralismo – What used to be the former Secretaría de Educación Pública (Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico) has been turned into the fantastic Living Museum of Muralism, a museum dedicated to the great muralists of Mexico, housed in what was originally built as a convent in the 16th century. The building alone would merit a visit, and after it became the Secretariat of Public Education in the 1920s, two of the country’s leading muralists, Diego Rivera and José David Alfaro Siqueiros, aslong with some other muralists, were commissioned to paint a series of murals covering a total of 235 panels.
The museum only opened in September 2024, so it’s still relatively new, but it’s now one of my favorite museums in Mexico City, and in my opinion, you don’t have to be a Frida Kahlo fan to enjoy this place. The building is remarkable, the murals are outstanding, and it’s free to visit! If you are looking to spot Frida, however, look out for her in the mural “En el Arsenal” on the second floor (one level above ground floor). Oh, and did I mention that there’s free admission?
Museo Soumaya – Unfortunately, I don’t know much about the mural itself, but Frida is part of an unfinished Diego Rivera mural on the top floor.
Palacio Nacional – Diego Rivera painted a huge mural here, spanning three floors. If you look closely, you’ll find Frida Kahlo in this mural, too. Note that you’ll need to have your passport on you to visit the National Palace (which is right by the Zocalo), but the visit is free. The palacio is typically open from 9am – 5pm, closed on Mondays, and be aware that it is sometimes randomly closed, if there are government functions or state visits.
